Should you be a citizen to recieve governement healthcare?

Due to recent highlights in the current media coverage, it would seem apparent that healthcare reform will be passed soon. According to foxnews.com, President Obama said that "healthcare reform will absolutely be passed by the end of the year." However, amongst growing concerns of government run healthcare, if passed, is whether or not those who are not U.S. citizens will be covered under the new reform bill. According to Milners database, polling the nations, a question asked in the Ramussen reports about whether or not those polled thought that people should have to show proof of citizenship before recieving government subsidies from healthcare. 83% of those polled said yes, 12% said no, and 5% were not sure. However, the growing defecit is a reoccurring complaint amongst the public. Yet, checking everyone to make sure that they are a legal citizen might proove to be problematic financially. Either way, the lack of money that is present with our state and federal systems will proove to be of major concern if President Obama comes through on his promise of having healthcare reform passed by the end of 2009.